http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Swiss pharmaceutical group Roche said Monday it is sticking by its hostile $5.7-billion (4.2 billion euros) bid for US gene mapper Illumina and is extending it for a month. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-roche-hostile-takeover-illumina.html Medications Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:40:02 EST news249553784 Biotech giant Amgen said Thursday it was buying the German-American cancer research firm Micromet, giving it access to Micromet's promising leukemia therapy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-amgen-micromet-anti-leukemia-drug.html Other Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:57:46 EST news246808660 British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline said Wednesday that third-quarter net profit rose seven percent, boosted by growth across its main pharmaceuticals, vaccines and consumer healthcare divisions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-glaxosmithkline-q3-profits.html Other Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:40:01 EST news238840116 Believe it or not, one thing that predicts how well a CEO's company performs is the width of his face. CEOs with wider faces, like Herb Kelleher, the former CEO of Southwest Airlines, have better-performing companies than CEOs like Dick Fuld, the long-faced final CEO of Lehman Brothers. That's the conclusion of a new study which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-company-ceo.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:08:24 EST news233503679